The Secret Service investigates numerous threats each day to people it protects, but it is uncommon for senior administration officials such as Noem and Gabbard to comment publicly.
‘He knew exactly what that meant’
Comey has long been a target of Trump’s ire, dating to early in Trump’s first presidency.
Trump fired Comey as FBI director in May 2017 as the bureau was investigating whether Trump’s advisers had colluded with the Russian government to steer the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Former FBI director James Comey speaks at Harvard University in February 2020.Credit: nnamikala.theocharous
In an interview with Bret Baier of Fox News that was broadcast on Friday, Trump, the target of two assassination attempts last year, said he believed that Comey was calling for him to be killed.
“He knew exactly what that meant,” Trump said. “A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know what that meant, that meant assassination. And it says it loud and clear.”
Asked what should happen to Comey, Trump replied that it should be up to Attorney-General Pam Bondi.
“But I will say this: I think it’s a terrible thing,” Trump continued. “And when you add his history to that, if he had a clean history, he doesn’t. He’s a dirty cop. He’s a dirty cop. And if he had a clean history, I could understand if there was a leniency, but I’m going to let them make that decision.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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